Tuesday, February 3, 2009

What is the use of ( )

What is ( )?
Why is ( ) necessary or what does it signify?
Show by example different uses of ( ).

21 comments:

  1. we can call it a wall which separates numbers

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  2. i agree with weezy they are called brackets

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  3. they are like containers that hold numbers and seperate them from others.

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  4. Examples of the use of brackets are
    i.e the expansion
    2x^2+3x
    x(2x+3)

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  5. what is really its purpose, just to seperate numbers?

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  6. like in the example above are the brackets are used to simplify the eguation?

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  7. They are used like weezy said as seperators but can also be used to group numbers

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  8. Brackets can be used example:(x+y) (x-y)in algebraic expression.

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  9. brackets are always solved first BODMAS

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  10. () are brackets
    they are used to separate numbers

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  11. brackets, when given a question which contains a pair of brackets, that usually mean to work out or simplify whats between the pair of brackets...

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  12. also...if there is a variable placed outside the brackets this means whatever is on the brackets must be multiplied by that variable..this variable can be represented by a letter too..(but remember if no variable is show, 1 is always understood to be there), for example 5(45 + 35) ....obviously the first thing that should be done is simplify whats in the brackets, then multiply it by the number outside....
    5(45 + 35)
    5(80)
    400

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  13. () - Brackets...the B being the first letter of BODMAS and it basically states that everything in these brackets have something in common. e.g. - 4(3x + 2)...3x+2 is the expression in the brackets and they share in common that they are both to be multiplied by the four outside of the brackets. if these brackets were expanded we wud have 12x +8...another way to look at this is the other way around...is you have 12x+8 you can factorize this by pulling out what both terms in the expression have in common (i.e- 4) and putting the expression into the brackets.

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  14. a bracket or parenthesis as it is known, is used to seperate work and in maths it means multiply

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  15. Brackets signify that each term outside the bracket must be multiplied by each term inside of the bracket.

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  16. Brackets can be used to group like terms together. To show belonging.

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  17. 2 (3 + 7)

    Demonstrates that the two must be multiplied by each number in the bracket.

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  18. Brackets seperate one operation from an equation to another

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  19. Brackets is necessary do avoid operation being mixed up

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